Local SEO | Mike Wilton

Why Google Search Plus Your World Won’t Impact Local Search…Yet

January 24, 2012 Mike Comments 3 comments

Yesterday I outlined why Google+ matters regardless of user engagement thanks to Google Search Plus Your World. Today I want to look at how Search Plus Your World is impacting local search currently and why we probably won’t see much of an impact on localized search in the short term. Earlier this month Greg Sterling did a post on Search Engine Land that talked about the limited impact of Google Search Plus Your World on Local. As I mentioned in my comment on…

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Local Listing Setup in the New Bing Business Portal: As Told By Bing

April 25, 2011 Mike Comments 0 Comment

Earlier this month Bing announced that the Bing Local Listing Center had been transition to the Bing Business Portal. The new system, which is in Beta, came with a new look, some new glitches, and individual comic frames as help tutorials for the process. Below are the individual frames combined into on single comic strip in the order they appear during setup. These details give a brief insight into how to setup a business listing in the Bing Business Portal…

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Bing Local Listings Center is now Bing Business Portal

April 13, 2011 Mike Comments 0 Comment

One of the most intense battles being waged by the search engines is the battle for local dominance. As more people look to local results and search via mobile device, locally relevant content is in high demand. Google seemed to be leading the pack with it’s variety of local products such as Places, Latitude, and HotPot (now discontinued), but it appears that Bing has upped the ante with a beta launch of Bing Business Portal. Though in Beta, the “Bing…

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Merchant Circle Makes Good On It’s Promise To Fight Spam

March 18, 2011 Mike Comments 0 Comment

Merchant Circle follows through with its plan to combat low-quality content and spam in its network following the Google Panda update.

Google Places: A Blessing and a Curse for Small Businesses

February 1, 2011 Mike Comments 0 Comment

Since the integration of Google Places search last October, the local search space has become a hot topic among internet marketers and small businessesalike. The need for a claimed, well optimized Google Places listing has never been more crucial, and yet at the same time it is perhaps at its most confusing and difficult state. In late November I shared some information about Google Places sending review requests via email to small businesses. In many instances it was inconsistencies with address format,…

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